The attacking Spitfire’s I believe reacted and responded to Sailor Malan’s cry of ‘Tally Ho!’ and went for it.

Sticking me neck on the chopping block (& without web-searching, or resorting to any books) my beer-addled memory recalls that a ‘Johnny Freeborne’ (of 74 Sqdn) was one of the pilots responsible for K/O the 56 Sqdn Hurricane.

Small irony in that the Havering council named a (rather small) road after him….. ‘Freebourne Gdns’, that runs off of (the considerably larger) ‘Mungo Park Rd’, near the old airfield that I used to live next to.